by Jemar Tisby | Dec 11, 2024 | Feature, Opinion
Editor’s Note: The following first appeared on “Footnotes,” Dr. Jemar Tisby’s Substack. December 10 marks the anniversary of the day in 1964 when Martin Luther King, Jr. accepted the Nobel Peace Prize for his work leading the civil rights movement. At 35 years old, he...
by Craig Nash | Dec 10, 2024 | Feature, Opinion
Almost immediately after the news broke of the killing of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson, most Americans knew it wasn’t a random murder. Even without knowing about the shell casings that investigators discovered with the words “delay,” “deny” and “depose”...
by Craig Nash | Dec 9, 2024 | Feature, News
Thousands of religious and civic leaders are calling on President Biden to commute the sentences of all federal inmates on death row before his term ends in January. Those calling for this released letters today through more than a dozen organizations across the...
by Mitch Randall | Dec 6, 2024 | Feature, Opinion
The United Kingdom’s House of Commons backed a proposal last week 330-275 to permit terminally ill adults with a life expectancy of six months or less to seek assistance to end their own lives. The practice is known as “aid-in-dying.” While the bill still faces an...
by Craig Nash | Dec 5, 2024 | Feature, News
Despite a growing distrust of journalists and the decades-long dismantling of traditional news outlets, a near-record number of Americans believe the media acts as a check on politicians’ worst impulses. A recent Pew Research survey found that almost...
by Craig Nash | Dec 4, 2024 | Feature, Opinion
Note: The following contains minor story-arc spoilers for HBO/Max’s “Somebody Somewhere.” The collision between the streaming era of television and fraught political and cultural times has produced a new question to the menu of small talk we make in...
